politics

Jim Chalmers has started his second term as treasurer just like the first one ended: trying to frame the budget on his terms, but with one eye on inflation. Source link

The government confirms two categories of NDIS providers will be subject to mandatory registration, more than a year after it was handed recommendations for how to implement a new system. Source link

Labor has two options when it comes to straddling a budget in the red and accusations it has become a green Grinch on health funding. Source link

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher hand down their first budget update since the 2025 federal election. Source link

Experts call for urgent action to turn around an “unacceptable” decline in testing for a disease that kills 20 people every day. Source link

Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook showing an $8.4 billion improvement to the budget bottom line. Source link

A combination of savings and higher tax takes have delivered an $8.4 billion improvement to the federal budget’s bottom line, the mid-year update is expected to show when it is released on Wednesday.  Source link

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will head the internal group aiming to intensify scrutiny of the federal government’s response to antisemitism. Source link

Former prime minister John Howard, whose gun reforms fundamentally reshaped Australia, says he would support further tightening, but it cannot be made into a distraction or an “excuse” not to tackle antisemitism.  Source link

A report that has sat on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s desk for months is being raised by critics as key evidence that the federal government has done too little, too late to respond to the rising tide of antisemitism since the October 7 terror attack in Israel. Source link